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The electronic configurations of Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu adatoms on graphene and graphite have been studied by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism and charge transfer multiplet theory. A delicate interplay between long-range interactions and local…

We present systematic first-principles results for the electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional transition-metal trihalide monolayers MX3 (M = V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Pd; X = F, Cl, Br, I), focusing on their potential to host the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-01 Thi Phuong Thao Nguyen , Kunihiko Yamauchi

We show how coupling to an Einstein phonon $\omega_E$ affects the absorption peaks seen in the optical conductivity of graphene under a magnetic field $B$. The energies and widths of the various lines are shifted, and additional peaks arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Adam Pound , J. P. Carbotte , E. J. Nicol

We have performed an ab initio investigation of the energetic stability, and the electronic properties of transition metals (TMs = Mn, Fe, Co, and Ru) adsorbed on graphene upon the presence of grain boundaries (GBs). Our results reveal an…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-12 F. D. C. de Lima , R. H. Miwa

Observations of electron-hole asymmetry in transport through graphene devices at high magnetic field challenge prevalent models of the graphene quantum Hall effect. Here, we study this asymmetry both in conventional magnetotransport and in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Nicolas Moreau , Boris Brun , Sowmya Somanchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christoph Stampfer , Benoît Hackens

We have studied the electronic and magnetic properties of graphene and their modification due to the adsorption of water and other gas molecules. Water and gas molecules adsorbed on nanoscale graphene were found to play the role of defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

We present an ab-initio density function theory to investigate the electronic and magnetic structures of the bilayer graphene with intercalated atoms C, N, and O. The intercalated atom although initially positioned at the middle site of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-07 S. J. Gong , W. Sheng , Z. Q. Yang , J. H. Chu

We report on magneto-transport measurement in disordered graphene under pulsed magnetic field of up to 57T. For large electron or hole doping, the system displays the expected anomalous Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE) specific to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. M. Poumirol , W. Escoffier , A. Kumar , M. Goiran , B. Raquet , J. M. Broto

In this work, we investigate the adsorption of a single cobalt atom (Co) on graphene by means of the complete active space self-consistent field approach, additionally corrected by the second-order perturbation theory. The local structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-15 A. N. Rudenko , F. J. Keil , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein

We present electronic structure and quantum transport calculations that predict conducting channels induced in graphene quantum dots by lines of adsorbed hydrogen atoms to function as highly efficient, experimentally realizable valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Mohammadhadi Azari , George Kirczenow

By applying tight binding model of adatoms in graphene, we study theoretically the localized aspects of the interaction between transition metal atoms and graphene. Considering the electron-electron interaction by adding a Hubbard term in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-14 F. Escudero , J. S. Ardenghi , L. Sourrouille , P. Jasen , A. Juan

This work presents a systematic review of the feature-rich essential properties in graphene-related systems using the first-principles method. The geometric and electronic properties are greatly diversified by the number of layers, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Ngoc Thanh Thuy Tran , Shih-Yang Lin , Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

Quantum anomalous Hall state is expected to emerge in Dirac electron systems such as graphene under both sufficiently strong exchange and spin-orbit interactions. In pristine graphene, neither interaction exists; however, both interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Chi Tang , Bin Cheng , Mohammed Aldosary , Zhiyong Wang , Zilong Jiang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Marc Bockrath , Jing Shi

We theoretically investigate the manipulation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in graphene by means of the uniaxial strain. The values of Chern number and Hall conductance demonstrate that the strained graphene in presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 G. S. Diniz , M. R. Guassi , F. Qu

Adsorbed noble gas atoms donate (on the average) a fraction of an electronic charge to the substrate metal. The effect has been experimentally observed as an adsorptive change in the electronic work function. The connection between the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Widom , M. S. Tomassone , Y. N. Srivastava , M. Hannout

The absorption energy of atomic hydrogen at rotated graphene bilayers is studied using ab initio methods based on the density functional theory including van der Waals interactions. We find that, due to the surface corrugation induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 Ivan Brihuega , Felix Yndurain

Recent successes in manufacturing of atomically thin graphite samples (graphene) have stimulated intense experimental and theoretical activity. The key feature of graphene is the massless Dirac type of low-energy electron excitations. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

The analytical expressions for both diagonal and off-diagonal ac and dc conductivities of graphene placed in an external magnetic field are derived. These conductivities exhibit rather unusual behavior as functions of frequency, chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov

The electromagnetic response of graphene in a magnetic field is studied, with particular emphasis on the quantum features of its ground state (vacuum). The graphene vacuum, unlike in conventional quantum Hall systems, is a dielectric medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Shizuya

When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuanbo Zhang , Yan-Wen Tan , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim